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Sins of a Solar Spymaster #22  The Seven Types of Spy

EVE Online
is practically the only game where one can assume the role of a spy in
an environment where intelligence gathering is necessary and makes a
real impact, and won't get you banned....

EVE Online
is practically the only game where one can assume the role of a spy in
an environment where intelligence gathering is necessary and makes a
real impact, and won't get you banned. While only a tiny percentage of
the playerbase ends up dabbling in the metagame, a significant number
became interested in the game in the first place due to the widely
publicized efforts of famous agents.

In the latest edition of Sins of a Solar Spymaster,
the Mittani takes a look at the seven general types of agent in New
Eden who have the will to persevere through some of the less glamorous
aspects of the spy business:

It takes a keen eye to
determine what will cause maximum distress in an
enemy, and the Sadists have it. These guys tend to have an attitude
somewhere between bitterness and utter contempt for the organization
they've infiltrated, and they respond to the stresses of the job by
trying to cause as much interpersonal misery as possible - and then
publish it.

To read Sins of a Solar
Spymaster #22 – The Seven Types of
Spy, click
here!